plasq releases Comic Life Magiq 1.0 for Leopard
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
May 8, 2008 at 7:49am
plasq has released Comic Life Magiq 1.0 for Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”). It’s photo-comic desktop publishing software.
With it you can create photo stories with professional templates, warp images with the Magiq image editor, and produce how-to guides using any digital image on your Mac. Comic Life Magiq is built from the ground up to leverage the power of Leopard’s core technologies, like Core Image and Core Animation, according to plasq co-founder Robert Grant.
The Magiq Image Editor offers features such as smart cut-out, warping and smudging, painting, skinning, green-screening and more. The comic page layout engine can handle complex and creatively-curved comic panels, speech balloons and captions, Grant says. Artistic “brushes” provide hand-drawn feel to lines, and compositing lets the user flexibly combine their images, he adds.
Comic Life Magiq offers control over individual comic elements and enables gradients, reflections, brushes, line styles, fill options, shadows and more. The modular interface lets users hide or view these details while navigating through a continuous WSYWIG (what you see is what you get) page layout view.
Also included are a collection of artist-commissioned templates, props, balloon shapes and spraycans. Templates cover a variety of life’s events and characters including birthdays, pets, outdoor activities etc.
Comic Life Magiq requires Leopard. It costs US$44.95. Crossgrades from Comic Life Basic, Comic Life Deluxe and Comic Life Apple Bundle are available for $29.95. Volume education licensing options are available. Volume education crossgrade pricing is also available. A demo is available from plasq.
“Macsimum News” is a proud supporter of Planet Gumbo, which feeds the hungry. We urge you to help them in their efforts.
Article Information
Comment on this Article Print this Article Email this Article Digg This
Contributor
Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
